Life of William Blake With Selections From His Poems And Other Writings volume
Life of William Blake With Selections From His Poems And Other Writings volume
Alexander Gilchrist
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One more illustrative anecdote. * Cromek, ' as Mr. Peter Cunningham mildly puts it, ' had rather lax ideas about meiuji *■ et tmnn when valuable autographs were laid before him. I * remember an instance of this, which I have heard my father ' relate. Sir Walter Scott was talking to him of some of the ' chief curiosities he possessed at Abbotsford. " I had once ' (I am sorry to say once) an original letter from Ben Jonson ' to Drummond of Hawthornden, all in Ben's own beautiful ' handwriting : I... never heard of another. " My father men- ' tioned one he had seen in London in Cromek' s hands. Scott * used some strong expression, and added, " The last person ' I showed that letter to w^as Cromek, and I have never seen it since. '" Cromek had favoured Scott with a visit during his Dumfries tour of 1809. After this unexpectedly vivid ray of evidence as to character Mr. Cromek's bare word cannot be taken, when he contradicts the positive assertion of simple, upright, if visionary Blake, that Cromek ' had actually commissioned him to paint the Pilgrimage before Stothard thought of his!
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